quote: For example, CSS doesn't have variables... so you can't say something like "headerColor = #5444BB" and just use that wherever you want the header color. What were they thinking!?

That's what css classes are for:
CSS - .blueHeader { color: #5444BB; } .redHeader { color: #BB4445; }

HTML -
I'm Blue
I'm Red

Each INTERPOL member country maintains a National Central Bureau staffed by national law enforcement officers.

Yes, and in the United States, the NCB is staffed by members of the Justice Department www.justice.gov/usncb/

Sorry, fail. Threatening to report illegal activity to the police unless the illegal activity stops is not blackmail by a long stretch.

Some people where I work sit on those exercise balls. While you're not busy, you can do mini crunches, and even while you're just sitting there, you will be using your ab and back muscles much more to support your posture. Also, stand up and stretch for a few minutes every hour. It's better than nothing.

If it were up to him, the www would still be plain text and images. His philosophy boils down to "Lets design all websites to the lowest common denominator", which is fine if your website needs to have the widest possible audience, but most don't, just like most other forms of published content. Just think. No password masking+browser form persistence features means that I just have to be able to go to, say, gmail on your machine, double click the username field, tab once, and I know your google password. Then I can go to the coffee shop, log into your blogger account, create some nice posts in your name, then log into your analytics account do some bad stuff there, etc.

Now you see the advantage of flash and silverlight. They are plugins, so the people who develop the technology control how it is implemented and displayed. With HTML5, each browser will implement features differently. That's why I first started looking at flash, because I was so sick of the CSS incompatibilities back in the day.

The structure of packages, the strong typing of variables, classes and functions, and many of the classes ARE similar to java

For example, I'd love an integrated code editor in Flash with decent editing, syntax highlighting, and intellisense capabilities;

Yes, it's called Flex Builder/Flash Builder

Sometimes you need money for things other than "that 50 inch plasma", like, for example, food for your children.

And yet I don't hear any suggestion that we test people for Ambien at traffic stops. Weird, huh?

Hari Seldon could've warned them about this.

Between using a temporary gmail account until your email server is set up and using a Yahoo mail account to conduct government business in secret without accountability or transparency.